Continuous Delivery is a complex holistic approach to software development and has a significant impact on the ways in which organisations operate.This approach demands a broad range of skills and techniques. This masterclass is designed to explore the deeper understanding of these ideas and techniques.

Increased efficiency and quality, and reduced risk in your software development process is the outcome you can expect of this Continuous Delivery masterclass.

Dave Farley takes an approach that will allow you to become more experimental and capable of reacting quickly and efficiently to change and allowing your software development process to become a tool that enables this flexibility rather than an impediment to it.

Who Will Benefit? The masterclass targets IT professionals who operates at advanced levels but still are hands-on-practitioners (Developers, Testers, Analysts, Operators). Anyone who works closely day-to-day on the production and release of software will benefit from participating.

Architecture is all about the boxes and arrows. Whilst the boxes themselves can be interesting, it’s the arrows between them that this class will focus on. How can microservices communicate with each other?

No two classes are the same, with the attendees driving the exact agenda, but expect to cover the nature of synchronous and asynchronous communication, request-response vs event-driven collaboration, and why friends don’t let friends use distributed transactions. Along the way we can talk about the merits of different types of message brokers, why Sam now thinks schemas are cool again, and how event sourcing can be incredibly confusing.

Please note, this is not a coding class, but it is highly interactive. There will be lots of discussion - computing is all about trade offs, and this is especially true in the space of microservice communication. There is no one perfect solution, but by the end of the class you’ll better understand what trade offs might be important to you.